Clara Tuite is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (Cambridge, 2002), co-editor, with Gillian Russell, of Romantic Sociability: Social Networks and Literary Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 (Cambridge, 2002), and co-editor, with Claudia L. Johnson, of A Companion to Jane Austen (2009).
Prologue: proverbially notorious
Introduction: the meteor's milieu
Part I. Worldlings: 1. Caroline Lamb, more like a beast
2. Stendhal, on his knees
3. Napoleon, that fallen star
4. Bloody Castlereagh
Part II. Writings: 5. Childe Harold IV and the pageant of his bleeding heart
6. Don Juan: the life and work of infamous poems
Part III. After-Warriors: 7. Byron's Head and the pirate sphere
Epilogue: you may be devil
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